From The Historical Marker database.
Near North Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, the Home of Carolina Beach Music. Get your history and do a little dancing too at Fat Harold's and HOTO's.
INSCRIPTION:
Locaterd about 5 miles east of here, this Confederate fort included a blockhouse pierced for muskets and earthworks surrounded by a ditch about 10 foot broad and five feet deep.
The fort was captured Jan 1863 by U.S. Navy Lt. Wm. B. Casuhing and twenty-five men while looking for blockade-runner pilots. Cushing held the fort briefly until his supply of ammunition was exhausted.
Erected 1976 by the Horry County Historic Preservation Commission. (Marker Number 26-4)
--Old B-Runner
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